Oberlin smith



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No. 569,805. Patented Oct. 20, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OBERLIN SMITH, OF BRIDGE"ON, NElV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE DRAPER & SONS, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOOM.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 569,805, dated October 20, 1896.

Application filed August 9, 1895. Serial No. 558,718. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: fol-illustration and herein shown in the draw- Beit known that LOBERLIN SMITILOf Bridgeings the frame A, the uprights or standards ton, county of Cumberland, State of New J er- A the cam-shaft A, the lay A carrying a soy, have invented an Improvement in Looms, reed, the whip-roll A, the stands l3,the rolls or 5 5 5 of which the following description, in connecrods Z), journaled therein, the heddle-frames, tion with the accompanying drawings, is a comprisingthe top and bottom connected bars specification, like letters on the drawings repa a, pulleys a, straps c a, the lower connectresenting like parts. ing-straps a a, the actuating-levers a a,

This invention in looms has especial refpivoted at a and the cams a a, the feelers 1o erence to devices having openings through f, on and rocked by shaft f, the cam G, conwhich the warp-threads are passed, and which troller-lever g, and shipper-handle A of the maybe called Warp devices, the same being stop-motion are and may be as in looms of employed to fulfil the function of heddles for usual construction,such,forinstance, as illusthe sheddingof the warp-threads and also trated in United States Patent No. 536,069, 15 for the detection and stopping of the loom issued April 2, 1895, to Charles F. Roper, to

upon the occurrence of broken warp-threads, which reference may be had, like letters repor employed solely for the detection and resenting like parts, the same codperating as stopping of the loom upon occurrence of fully shown and described in said patent. In broken warp-threads. the said patent the heddles d therein shown 20 My invention consists in bending said deare strips of flat metal, the warp-threads travvices at or adjacent the openings and transeling in the planes of the heddles being neces versely to the line of travel of the warpsarilyturned or bent in order to pass through threads passed through said openings so that the openings 2 in the said heddles, this turnthe said threads may pass nearly or quite ing or bending of the threads giving rise to 7 5 25 straight through the said openings and from unnecessary friction and sometimes, when one to the other side of the said devices withthe Warp-threads are under sufficient tension, out bending the threads, to thereby save wear operating to twist the heddles more or less of the threads due to the bending of the same from their normal positions. in passing through the openings, as hereto- In my present invention, as herein illuso fore, and also to avoid the tendency of the trated, Iemployheddles cl,used also, as stated, threads so bent to twist the devices out of for the purposes corresponding to the devices their true positions. similarly lettered in the patent referred to;

Myinvention further consists in the combibut instead of employing flat metallic hednation of such devices with suitable heddledies, as in the said patent, in this present in operating and stop-motion devices, to be devention the said devices are criinped or bent scribed. longitudinally, that is, in the direction trans- In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical crossversely to the direction of travel of the warpsection of a loom provided with Warp devices threads through the openings 2 therein, to embodying my invention, the same showing thereby offset the opposite edges of the said 4o suflicient parts to enable the invention to be devices adjacent said openings to enable the clearly understood; Fig. 2, a side view of one warp-threads to pass straight through the of the warp devices broken off at its lower openings, as best shown in Fig. 4:. These end,with a thread passed through the opencrimps or bends are shown as extended ing therein; Fig. 3, a view looking at the throughout the entire lengths of the heddles, 5 45 edges of several devices arranged one close but it is evident that the length of the crimps to another and with their lower ends broken or bends may be made as desired or neces chi; and Fig. 4: an enlarged sectional detail on sary and the degree of crimping or bending the dotted line 1: .r, Fig. 3, showing the pasmay also be varied to cause more or less offsage of the threads through the openings in set at the opposite edges of the devices, as too 50 my improved devices. may be found necessary or desired.

In the embodiment of my invention selected My invention is not limited to any particu- -lar shape or construction nor to the use of any particular material, the gist of my invention consisting in the crimping or bending of the device, having an opening through which a warp-thread is passed, so that opposite sides or faces of the said device at opposite sides of the said opening shall be in different planes, to thereby enable a thread to' be passed through said opening without unduly bending the same, whether such devices are used for shedding the Warp-threads and detecting broken warp-threads or for either shedding or detecting, as the case may be.

Having described one embodiment of my invention, and without limiting myself as to details, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The described device for looms, it having an opening for the passage therethrough of a warp-thread, said device being crimped or bent longitudinally and throughout its entire length whereby the portions at opposite sides said opening are offset to provide a straight passage of the thread through said opening, and at the same time enable two or more of said devices when closely arranged side by side to have free and independent longitudinal movement, substantially as described.

2. In a loom, the combination with a frame,

and heddle-moving mechanism, of the heddleframes, and devices carried thereby and pro" vided with openings for the warp-threads, said devices being crimped or bent longitudinally for their entire lengths to offset portions at opposite sides of said opening to provide substantially straight passage of the warp-threads through said openings. substan tially as described.

3. In a loom, the combination with a frame, and a lay, of devices provided with openings for the warp-threads said devices being crimped or bent longitudinally throughout their entire lengths to thereby offset portions at opposite sides said openings to provide a substantially straight passage of the warpthreads therethrough, and a stop-motion, and its feeler cooperating with the said devices, substantially as described.

4. In a loom, the combination with a frame. a lay, the heddles having openings for the passage of the warpthreads, said heddles being bent or crimped longitudinally throughout their entire lengths to thereby offset portions at opposite sides of said openings, 01fset to provide substantiallystraight passage of the said threads, mechanism to move said heddles to shed the threads, a warp stop-motion and its feeler cooperating with said heddles, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence or two subscribing witnesses.

OBERLIN SMITH.

Witnesses:

HUGH L. 'REEvEs, Rom. S. SCHILLER. 

